Halloween maze in Los Feliz
Timur Bootzin inside a haunted maze that he designed in front of his home in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Lana VanCleemput, 12, works the donation booth for a haunted house maze in the yard of a home in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Emily Chapman, 6, and her mother Erica make their toward the entrance of a haunted house maze in Los Feliz. They did the nonscary version.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Lottie DeGovia, 4, and her mother, Kate, make their way through a haunted house maze in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Lottie DeGovia, 4, and her mother, Kate, make their way through a haunted house maze in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, sprays fake blood on a prop while working with friend Jose Adame, 16, to prepare the “decontamination room” of a haunted house maze in the yard of Timur’s home in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Jackson George, left, from top, Isaac Love, 8, and Truman George, 7, react to ax-wielding performer James Landau, 15, as they tour a haunted house maze in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Oswaldo Corado, 12, left, and Carlos Zevallos, 16, center, are harassed by performer Sebastian Foster, 13, as they make their way through a haunted house maze in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, left, and friend Jose Adame, 16, work on the fallout shelter section of a haunted house maze at Timur’s home in Los Feliz. The theme of the haunted house is “Apocalyptic Wasteland.”
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, sizes up a prop on in the haunted house maze he built in Los Feliz. The theme of the maze is, “Apocalyptic Wasteland.”
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, inside the haunted house maze he designed at his home in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, tests prop locations in his haunted house maze.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, carries a dummy from the haunted house maze he designed at his home in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Truman George, 7, right, of Silver Lake screams as a performer lunges at her in the haunted house maze.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Timur Bootzin, 16, shines a flashlight while making last-minute preparations before opening the maze to visitors.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Children hold onto one another while making their way through a haunted house maze in Los Feliz.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Performer James Landau, 15, stalks a couple touring a haunted house maze in Los Feliz.
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